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Now this writer [Josephus], although not believing in Jesus as the Christ, in seeking after the cause of the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple, whereas he ought to have said that the conspiracy against Jesus was the cause of these calamities befalling the people, since they put to death Christ, who was a prophet, says ...
For some, this blackness was due to Jesus's identification with black people, not to the color of his skin, [58] while others such as the black nationalist Albert Cleage argued that Jesus was ethnically black. [59] A study which was documented in the 2001 BBC series Son of God attempted to determine what Jesus's race and appearance may have ...
Josephus's writings provide the first-known source for many stories considered as Biblical history, despite not being found in the Bible or related material. These include Ishmael as the founder of the Arabs , [ 49 ] the connection of "Semites", "Hamites" and "Japhetites" to the classical nations of the world , and the story of the siege of ...
Some Black activists have led a movement to discard the White Jesus. Black theologians like the Rev. Albert Cleage have depicted Jesus as a man of color and a revolutionary. And during the George ...
In Josephus' (first century) writings and medieval legend, Moses married Tharbis as his first wife. Jordaens' view is unknown, and the painting has been exhibited under titles without the name Zipporah. [5]: 248 Jordaens likely encountered the tale of Moses' wife in contemporary translations of the Bible and the writings of Josephus.
As we embrace the multifaceted historical realities of Black History Month, it is not irony but ethnic reality that calls our attention to those passages of scripture in Mark 15:21 and Luke 23:26.
Joseph of Arimathea (Ancient Greek: Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ἀπὸ Ἀριμαθαίας) is a Biblical figure who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion. Three of the four canonical Gospels identify him as a member of the Sanhedrin, while the Gospel of Matthew identifies him as a rich disciple of Jesus.
Josephus' James passage attests to the existence of Jesus as a historical person and that some of his contemporaries considered him the Messiah. [10] [23] According to Bart Ehrman, Josephus' passage about Jesus was altered by a Christian scribe, including the reference to Jesus as the Messiah. [24]